BONUS: You are assisting a physician during a thoracentesis…
BONUS: You are assisting a physician during a thoracentesis on a patient with a pleural effusion on the right side. The physician asks you to provide him with a needle for anesthesizing the area. What size needle will you provide?
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When no weapons of mass destruction were found following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, some Americans revised their memories of the main rationale for going to war. This suggests that we can best explain why people changed their memories in terms of
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BONUS: An RT has just intubated a patient with the assistance of another respiratory therapist who is monitoring a capnograph during the procedure. Throughout the intubation procedure and after insertion of the ETT the ETCO2 monitor maintained a reading of 0%. What interpretation can be made at this time?
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A 47-year-old, 6’1” male patient is admitted to the hospital due to trauma from a motor vehicle accident. Forty-eight hours post admission, the patient is suffering from respiratory distress with severe hypoxemia and is intubated. A chest x-ray, done prior to intubation , reveals a ground glass appearance bilaterally. The physician requests the volume-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation (VC-CMV) mode for this patient. The initial settings for the ventilator should be which of the following?
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